Is there sometimes a 'special' parameter that I can use to filter out specific things?

The end idea is to have a list of events around the house. Let's call it a more 'human' list. My girlfriend will never read logfiles, and i expect that most of the people will not do this. I think that a more userfriendly loglist would be a step in the right direction to open up the system to everyone.

What I do, if I really want to see the triggered events, I use grep on a log file. If I want to see the current status of a light etc, I look at the floorplan. imho there is no need for anything in-between. Either I really want to see nitty gritty details, or I want to see what the current status is.

For security events, there is always the Security / Alert Log in the web admin.

Based on this, i've created a small script that follows the logs, and put the most important info (for me) into a seperate log file.Below you can find to commands. One to log the 'tripped sensors', and one to log the phonecalls. I'll see if i can find other intresting things to have in my 'filtered events log'.